OWJ 168A is a former Trent Leyland Tiger Cub, re-registered and sold to Thornhill Poultry Packers near Buxton, for staff transport. It is passing through The Wardwick back in Derby, after receiving attention at Meadow Road garage and now heading for Trent's former Uttoxeter New Road works, since closed when the company relocated its HQ to Langley Mill, the old home of Midland General

F 600 GVO is seen in the immediate post NBC Trent livery of Ayres Red and Silver. These were the first doubledeckers bought by Trent after privatisation and were handsome buses. Sadly they and the second 'G' reg batch both had short lives, due to competition from The Robin Hood Line and trent's decision to abandon doubledeck operation.

The Volvo Citibus was a fine piece of engineering, based on the B10M mid-underfloor engined coach chassis. Unfortunately, althopugh it provided an excellent drive train, the high floor was against it in today's climate of easy access. It was also unavailable in lowheight form - put a drop-centre back axle in this and the engine would have dragged on the floor!

Rear shot of F600 GV), Volvo Citibus with Volvo THD102 9.6 litre turbo six-cyl. diesel and ZF Ecomat 4HP500 4-speeed automatic transmission, to my mind the smoothest and sweetest of them all!

Interior view of F600 GVO lowerdeck, with the then latest striped moquette trim

One of Trent's ECW-bodied Leyland Atlantean AN68's on a diversion of the Ashbourne via Cross 'o the Hands 109, passing Quarndon Water Tower on Woodlands Lane

MRC 507E, a 1967 Daimler Fleetline / Alexander, is seen after relegation to a driver trianer in NBC white, at Woodlands Road Top, a regular venue for such duties at the time, in the early 1980's

MRC 507 E outside our house at Woodlands Top, Allestree, derby.

LRC 454 heads past our house at Woodlands Top, Allestree on driver training in the 1980's. By this tiem she had been repainted in original Ayres red and Ivory livery.

BRC 309 seen at Woodlands Road Top on the old Allestree Circular 57A, taken on my first film, in Summer 1959, using an Ensign E29 box camera! The bus is an AEC Regal Mk.III '6821X' featuring the AEC A173 7.7litre diesel but rare in having a Crossley synchromesh gearbox. The dual purpose 33 seat body is by Willowbrook of Loughborough and the seats were a fantastic green fern moquette, set off by wonderful Odeon style fluted white glass interior lights.

XAL 497S, a series 1, Mk. 2 Leyland National 11351A/1R, uncommon in the Trent fleet in being dual door, heads up Woodlands Road on the long-discontinued Allestree via Darley Abbey route 55

URB 826S, a Bristol VRTsl3/6G heads down West Bank Road, Allestree on the old Allestree 55 back to town via Darley Abbey village

Sun. 14 Nov. 1976 at Meadow Road garage in Derby and XRB 417L is seen in the short-lived National Blue livery, adopted for a time by Midland General, by now part of Trent. The bus was soon to go into the ubiquitous Poppy Red, more's the pity!

XCH 706Y, the only one of Trent's first batch of Leyland Olympians to be painted in traditional BET Group Ayres red & Ivory for an anniversary of the company and very nice too. Seen at Bromley Street stop on Kedleston Road, heading into town on the 52 from Allestree

LRC 454, the surviving trent 1958 Leyland Titan PD3/4, with Willowbrook H73RD body, reversing in Laburnum Crescent, Allestree on a regular driver training duty. This location was once the terminus for the Allestree 58A, an evening extension of the 58 from Harewood Road, where conductors had to blow their whistle for the driver to stop!

PRR 445 R, "the Flying Coffin" - so called because it was fitted experimentally with a vertical Leyland O.680 Atlantean engine for some years and boy could it motor! It became more sedate when later fitted with a Gardner 6HLXB but never returned to the original O.510 unit. 445 is heading down Woodlands Road, Allestree on the 55

KCH 127 seen in Erewash Travel's Yard at Hallam Fields, Ilkeston was still dressed in Trent style livery, after having left the fleet some years before. It is a 1957 Leyland Titan PD2/12, of the last vacuum braked buses delivered and has MCW Orion body with austere brown leatherette seating, not one of my favourites but a steady plodder

After the Trent fire at Meadow Road, the tree trimmer helps with the clean up as we see a burnt out 1962 Leyland Atlantean with Weymann body, usually based at the Wirksworth sub-depot, awaiting its fate in the background. It was a sore point with Wirksworth staff that they lost this motor - it got scrapped soon after

XAU 700 Y, Trent's first leyland Olympian, in corporate NBC Poppy Red garb, heads out for Allestree up Kedleston Road on the 51

XCH 706 Y heads out from Derby's 1930's Art Deco bus station, soon to disappear in 2005 sadly. It was a flagship when opened, designed by Mr. Aslin the Borough Architect. A shame it can't be rebuilt at a museum like Wythall!

Trent "Olly" 706 leaves the now-closed Derby Bus Station on a damp day on local service Allestree 52

FCH 13, a wonderful Saunders-Roe bodied Leyland Tiger Cub, is seen at Woodlands Road Top in Summer 1959 on the old Allestree Circular 57A

ORC 768, a very late survivor of Trent's early semi-lowbridge Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1's. seen at Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston in Jubilee year, on Sat. 28 May 1977

ECH 238 C is a 1965 Leyland Leopard, one of the last survivors of its batch, on an uncommon working to Bunny on the 101, heading out of Derby Bus Station around 1975